Extracts from a Daily Mail interview with vegetarian singer, Imelda May from Dublin…

I owe a lot of my success to an injured crow.

In 2008 I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there and we ended up jamming together. We became firm friends and all sorts of doors started opening for me.

I’ve always stood up for my principles.

At school I’d refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn’t bear the thought of them suffering. We lived next to a slaughter-house, so I was used to seeing the pigs escape down the road, then be hauled back in to be killed. It’s not really surprising I became a vegetarian…

Ireland’s IMC Cinema Group is being encouraged to screen Forks Over Knives, a new documentary described by critic Roger Ebert as “a film that could save your life”.

It explores the benefits of a vegan diet in controlling, and even reversing, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. The health risks associated with consuming meat, dairy and eggs are exposed and audiences are encouraged to switch to plant-based foods.

Countless people suffer and die in Ireland every year as a result of diseases linked to meat and dairy consumption. This remarkable documentary could be instrumental in saving lives here and improving the quality of life of Irish people.

That’s why we are asking the IMC Cinema Group to give Irish audiences the opportunity to see Forks Over Knives by screening it in all of its cinemas.

Contact IMC (or your local cinema) and tell them you’d like to see Forks Over Knives on the big screen.